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<br> In this companion volume to his acclaimed Therese of Lisieux: God's Gentle Warrior, Thomas R. Nevin has produced yet another magisterial volume. Among the many studies of this Doctor of the Church, precious few penetrate beyond the saccharine French that characterizes the spiritual prose of her time to reveal a towering figure of the late nineteenth century, whose depth and power reduce to a mere mannequin another porta voce of this epoch, Friedrich Nietzsche. - Martin Laird, O.S.A, author of Into the Silent Land and A Sunlit Absence: Silence Awareness and Contemplation<p><br> Never do I read a book a second time. Life is so short, books are so many. Thomas R. Nevin's earlier study Therese of Lisieux God's Gentle Warrior has stayed as close as my night table or my desk. Retired parish priest that I am, I purchased additional copies to circulate among friends-an extension of my many years in pastoral ministry. My response to the The Last Years of Saint Therese: Doubt and Darkness 1895-1897 is even greater: more armfuls for more friends. Everyone should know the last years of Therese as Dr. Nevin has so remarkably researched and so reverently recorded them. It is a wonderful achievement. Turning the pages one gets the impression that the author himself was being deeply affected by his labors, as you will be by your reading. Words borrowed from W.B. Yeats come to mind: 'He, too, has been changed in his turn, transformed utterly: a terrible beauty is born.' - John P. McNamee, author of Diary of a City Priest<p><br>

In this companion volume to his acclaimed Therese of Lisieux: God's Gentle Warrior, Thomas R. Nevin has produced yet another magisterial volume. Among the many studies of this Doctor of the Church, precious few penetrate beyond the saccharine French that characterizes the spiritual prose of her time to reveal a towering figure of the late nineteenth century, whose depth and power reduce to a mere mannequin another porta voce of this epoch, Friedrich Nietzsche. - Martin Laird, O.S.A, author of Into the Silent Land and A Sunlit Absence: Silence Awareness and Contemplation Never do I read a book a second time. Life is so short, books are so many. Thomas R. Nevin's earlier study Therese of Lisieux God's Gentle Warrior has stayed as close as my night table or my desk. Retired parish priest that I am, I purchased additional copies to circulate among friends-an extension of my many years in pastoral ministry. My response to the The Last Years of Saint Therese: Doubt and Darkness 1895-1897 is even greater: more armfuls for more friends. Everyone should know the last years of Therese as Dr. Nevin has so remarkably researched and so reverently recorded them. It is a wonderful achievement. Turning the pages one gets the impression that the author himself was being deeply affected by his labors, as you will be by your reading. Words borrowed from W.B. Yeats come to mind: 'He, too, has been changed in his turn, transformed utterly: a terrible beauty is born.' - John P. McNamee, author of Diary of a City Priest

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Thomas R. Nevin is Professor of Classical Studies at John Carroll University. He is the author of Thérèse of Lisieux: God's Gentle Warrior, among other books. He is currently working on a study of German Protestant thinkers, from Luther to Nietzsche.

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